Find the hot issue write the hot take publish the hot take publish clicks. I say this because it behooves me to mention Tolentino’s position as a singular voice above the din of the wild digital publishing landscape, an industry that ruthlessly requires its writers to capture the zeitgeist all day, everyday. She spoke of totipotency and Simone Weil in a way that explained Emotion more pinpointedly than most, with an intellect that seemed to be deeply in touch with the pulse of pop culture but also above it.īut this isn’t about Carly Rae Jepsen. But Tolentino was one of the first, if not the first, to get so discursively adventurous. The first time I encountered Jia Tolentino’s writing was through an essay published in the now dead The Awl, entitled “Notes on 21st-Century Mystic Carly Rae Jepsen.” Jepsen’s 2015 nuclear blast of an album Emotion would go on to inspire, thanks to the devotion of its extremely online fanbases, a slew of thoughtpieces and critiques that refracted the blinding dazzle of thought through the prism of philosophy and critical theory.
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